Also, I made a few small spelling, grammar, and consistency fixes to hack/PACKAGERS.md while I was in there. Please let me know if there are more fixes I should include, more language that needs to be added, or especially dependencies that need to be updated in that document. I figure the bulk of the documentation updates will or have occurred separately (especially with regards to the kernel no longer requiring AUFS), and that this commit/PR should only include updates to the hack file that's relevant to them.

I've not really looked at these build scripts before, but it looks sane to me.

feedback need @shykes @creack @crosbymichael @mzdaniel

I'm testing the go1.2 and build flags for statically compiling sqlite in my links branch. So far everything looks good as far as statically linking is concerned.

This built just fine, however almost all of the tests fail with Error: Error starting container 818391894621: Unknown base hash without including the hash value, looks like from this section of code:

    baseInfo := devices.Devices[baseHash]
    if baseInfo == nil {
        return fmt.Errorf("Unknown base hash %s", baseHash)
    }

Not sure if it's related to some build process or if the branch is just broken for now.

Just as a status update for those following along at home, @creack is looking into solutions for our "Unknown base hash" issues.

@tianon I think this can be closed now because these changes have been integrated into the staging branch.

Indeed, good call.